My old SanDisk Cruzer Force had a problem in that the USB connector would just fall out of the thumbdrive. My dad helped me with gluing it back in, but it’s fallen out thrice now, so I gave up and decided to buy a new thumbdrive. They are dirt cheap these days anyway.

Recently, one of my Seagate HDDs died. It was probably due to me being a little too careless with the case when building the computer all those months ago. Thankfully, I mirrored the drives using Storage Spaces (which is very useful), so I didn’t lose any data.

Nothing much to say other than these Velcro cable ties are probably the best ‘tech’ purchase I’ve made in the last few months. I went ahead and bought 100 of these because it was cheaper than if I had bought 10 bundles of 10. Honestly, I probably wouldn’t need 100 of them, but I think it was pretty worthwhile.

Mechanical keyboards have a pretty large following, and I too was sucked into the world recently. I thought I had all the keyboard goodness I wanted when I bought my Ducky Shine 5, but it turns out that wasn’t enough.

Very interesting overview of Alzheimer’s Disease, one of the many poorly understood diseases that afflict us. I only knew about the plague thing a few months ago; the association with Down’s Syndrome, chromosome 21 and the basic pathophysiology I did not. Hopefully with this foundation, we can get a better understanding of the disease and find a solution for preventing, delaying the progression or even curing it.

As a pharmacy student, this scares me quite a bit more than it might scare people with less knowledge of medicine. The news of colistin-resistance plasmids appearing in China (due to the feeding of pigs with colistin-laced food) was especially troubling when I first heard it some time ago. Let’s hope more doctors stop prescribing antibiotics needlessly, and more patients take their antibiotics faithfully. Oh, and that farmers stop abusing antibiotics to keep their livestock from falling sick.